Bugs, design flaws, and other issues

[Cloudwalk]

For all manner of hindrance against thy motorized courier vehicle, a forum awaits below to vent all that ails thee, and to assist thy fellow courier.

[Proximity | Nadayan]

As noted before, you will get ticketed for going 5 or 10 mph under the speed limit - BUT not if you're going 35 on an 80 which is technically considered dangerous in some eyes.

[Cloudwalk]

Originally posted by Jester:

As noted before, you will get ticketed for going 5 or 10 mph under the speed limit - BUT not if you're going 35 on an 80 which is technically considered dangerous in some eyes.

Yeah you can get a ticket for going too slow, especially on the Interstate. The minimum speed is generally 45. In real life at least.

[Slate8]

There is also an 85 MPH stretch of Toll Road from South Austin to I10 East of San Antonio, From south Austin to Georgetown it's 80.

[Cloudwalk]

Originally posted by Slate8:

There is also an 85 MPH stretch of Toll Road from South Austin to I10 East of San Antonio, From south Austin to Georgetown it's 80.

Yeah that's what I was referring to. Texas Route 130. I edited it.

[Proximity | Nadayan]

Originally posted by Slate8:

There is also an 85 MPH stretch of Toll Road from South Austin to I10 East of San Antonio, From south Austin to Georgetown it's 80.

I've been down to Texas Route 130 and I live in Texas.

[baddog993]

Some of these issues are hold overs from the ETS 2. Like the fine for not turning on your lights at night. right turn on red being a fine. Yield signs on the ramp of freeways.

The stop sign at a four way light should be taken off. I can imagine most of these will be fixed.

[Cloudwalk]

Originally posted by baddog993:

Some of these issues are hold overs from the ETS 2. Like the fine for not turning on your lights at night. right turn on red being a fine. Yield signs on the ramp of freeways.

The stop sign at a four way light should be taken off. I can imagine most of these will be fixed.

With time. My biggest problem with the game is how gas stations are nearly impossible to use if you have a long-enough trailer, and approach the gas station from the opposite side of the road. You usually snag onto the gas station sign.

[Potato Buddy]

Time acceleration needs adjustments. So far as I can tell, time passes based on where you are, instead of your speed. For example, when driving on an Interstate or in the country, time seems to pass at a rate of 1 game minute for every 1.5 seconds or so, whether you are moving or not. So if you stop for gas, it can easily take 1 hour of gametime or more, if there are cars ahead of you. Or if you are sitting on an on ramp because the AI ahead of you is stopped, time continues to tick away. (Was it this way with ETS 2? I don't remember time passing so quickly, but I haven't played in a while.)

[Pavor Nocturnus]

Hard shoulders in NJ are usually a full car width. I know that's not the case in PA, but PA is weird for many other reasons as well = P

Also, the *posted* speed limit may not be 80 or anywhere near it in most places, but when you and a bunch of other people are all doing 75 on a 55 road, and a state cop is also doing 75 and doesn't pull over anyone...

[Potato Buddy]

Originally posted by Cpt. David:

With time. My biggest problem with the game is how gas stations are nearly impossible to use if you have a long-enough trailer, and approach the gas station from the opposite side of the road. You usually snag onto the gas station sign.

Unfortunately, the game world is just scaled too small, and not just from a geography standpoint. The on/off ramps, cramped gas stations, AI that gets stuck indefinitely all stems from a fundamental flaw in the scaling. The cities themselves are an OK size for me, but the rest of the layout just needs to be streched a little bit.

[Cloudwalk]

Originally posted by Pavor Nocturnus:

Hard shoulders in NJ are usually a full car width. I know that's not the case in PA, but PA is weird for many other reasons as well = P

Also, the *posted* speed limit may not be 80 or anywhere near it in most places, but when you and a bunch of other people are all doing 75 on a 55 road, and a state cop is also doing 75 and doesn't pull over anyone...

For the first part: in my travels between Tennessee and New York, the hard shoulders were never as wide as the travel lanes themselves, and I've viewed many Google Street View images of the Interstate in other parts of the country when I was bored, they were never as wide as the travel lanes either. Close, but not quite. Maybe a few feet off. But I guess it depends.

[BOYCOTT]

shoulders are ALWAYS a full car width everywhere in case someone actually uses the breakdown lane for it's namesake, the rest is obvious.

[Pavor Nocturnus]

Originally posted by Cpt. David:

Originally posted by Pavor Nocturnus:

Hard shoulders in NJ are usually a full car width. I know that's not the case in PA, but PA is weird for many other reasons as well = P

Also, the *posted* speed limit may not be 80 or anywhere near it in most places, but when you and a bunch of other people are all doing 75 on a 55 road, and a state cop is also doing 75 and doesn't pull over anyone...

For the first part: in my travels between Tennessee and New York, the hard shoulders were never as wide as the travel lanes themselves, and I've viewed many Google Street View images of the Interstate in other parts of the country when I was bored, they were never as wide as the travel lanes either. Close, but not quite. Maybe a few feet off. But I guess it depends.

Not going out and hand measuring, but yeah, one full lane hard shoulder on the nearby interstate (195). Left hand hard shoulder is small, maybe 1/4 to 1/3 lane width. Fairly certain the lanes themselves are also wider than in ATS, but part of that may be an inherent width difference between these trucks and my car...

[Cloudwalk]

Originally posted by Pavor Nocturnus:

Originally posted by Cpt. David:

For the first part: in my travels between Tennessee and New York, the hard shoulders were never as wide as the travel lanes themselves, and I've viewed many Google Street View images of the Interstate in other parts of the country when I was bored, they were never as wide as the travel lanes either. Close, but not quite. Maybe a few feet off. But I guess it depends.

Not going out and hand measuring, but yeah, one full lane hard shoulder on the nearby interstate (195). Left hand hard shoulder is small, maybe 1/4 to 1/3 lane width. Fairly certain the lanes themselves are also wider than in ATS, but part of that may be an inherent width difference between these trucks and my car...

Hm. According to the Interstate standards, the hard shoulder should be about at least 2 feet less wide than the travel lanes. But it turns out, especially where I live, the hard shoulder is in fact as wide as the travel lanes. Might be the angle or the lack of the rumble strips throwing me off, but they just looked inflated to me.

[BOYCOTT]

problem with narrow breakdown lanes happens when someone actually needs to pull their car over to the side of the road and either wait for a tow truck or try to fix it, sure you're just plain old screwed on some random road, but freeway, highway, interstate, they all should if nothing else provide enough space to pull a car over to the side of the road safely and clear of traffic.